For Want Of Wings
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For Want Of Wings
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Author : Jill Hunting
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2022-02-24
For Want Of Wings written by Jill Hunting and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles. More than a century later, Russell’s great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor’s forgotten expedition. Part detective history, part memoir, For Want of Wings is Jill Hunting’s captivating account of her journey into prehistory, national history, and family history. In her quest to piece together fragments of her family’s past, Hunting ends up crisscrossing the United States, from California to Connecticut. On her first trip across the Colorado Rockies to the fossil bed site near Russell Springs, Kansas, Hunting brings along her then twenty-six-year-old daughter. When the book opens, mother and daughter are both at crossroads, each seeking to understand the impact of personal decisions on the landscape of her life. As Hunting ventures forward, she encounters unexpected resources, such as ten-year-old triplets who converse with her about dinosaurs and a Connecticut museum where portraits of her ancestors hang on the walls. Through lively descriptions of these visits, Hunting advances a view of history as nonlinear and full of unlikely coincidences. For Want of Wings is also the carefully researched story of the least known of Yale’s four expeditions into the American West, led by eminent paleontologist O. C. Marsh; the friendship between Russell’s father and abolitionist John Brown; a portrait of a mother and daughter evolving in self-understanding; and an inquiry into matters of race in American history and the author’s own family. In the end, all these pieces converge, like fragments of a fossil, to form an exquisitely patterned work of historical exploration.
Scars Like Wings
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Author : Erin Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Scars Like Wings written by Erin Stewart and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl in Pieces and Every Last Word. Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever. But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly. "A heartfelt and unflinching look at the reality of being a burn survivor and at the scars we all carry. This book is for everyone, burned or not, who has ever searched for a light in the darkness." --Stephanie Nielson, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven Is Here and a burn survivor
I Want To Fly Where Are My Wings
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Author : Rakesh Sidana
language : en
Publisher: Rakesh Sidana
Release Date : 2015-01-04
I Want To Fly Where Are My Wings written by Rakesh Sidana and has been published by Rakesh Sidana this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Where are your wings? Yes. I am asking you. We all have wings, but those are in our mind. Here wings means EFFORTS, ENERGY and COURAGE and KNOWLEDGE which helps you to grow, to achieve or to fulfill your wishes or life goal. Everybody fly in her life like a bird. Some flies SMALL height, some little at MORE heights, some are flying near SKY. Some are trying to fly BEYOND the sky. Beyond the sky. Wow! You want to fly, want to free yourself from something that restrict you, something that don’t allow you to grow. You have to develop greater COURAGE to do that. It is all in your mind, the RESTRICTIONS and you have stopped trying it. I have written a book on this subject, how you can fly high. I want to fly, where are my wings This is motivational book which tells how you can be free from something which your mind has created. You have become SLAVE of your mind and you think you don’t have WINGS. This book is for those : – who want to START something new. – who are STUCK somewhere and need motivation. – who want to know the REAL WORLD situations. – who want to know how SUCCESSFUL entrepreneurs THINK. – who want CHANGE in their life. – who have PASSION but don’t know what to do. This motivational book is for students, start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Bequest Of Wings
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Author : Annis Duff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Bequest Of Wings written by Annis Duff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.
When You Need Wings
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Author : Lita Judge
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-03-03
When You Need Wings written by Lita Judge and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In the tradition of Where the Wild Things Are, beloved author-illustrator Lita Judge brings us a soaring story about the power of imagination. On a day when you feel like no one is listening, and you wish you could just disappear, shut your eyes and listen. Do you hear it? That isn’t your heart. That is the sound of your very own wings beating within. Acclaimed author-illustrator Lita Judge takes readers on a wonder-filled exploration of a child’s imagination, thoughtfully weaving in a gentle suggestion of how to explore that bountiful inner world and let it help them shine with courage in the real one.
The Girl With Borrowed Wings
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Author : Rinsai Rossetti
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-07-19
The Girl With Borrowed Wings written by Rinsai Rossetti and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it Controlled by her father and bound by desert, Frenenqer Paje’s life is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn’t. No family, no attachments, no rules. At night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her father, and her very sense of identity, breaking all the rules of her life to become free.
Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings
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Author : Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1988
Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings written by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Animals categories.
A discontented little rabbit wishes for a pair of red wings, but the reaction of his mother and the other animals convinces him that it is better just to be himself.
When You Need Wings
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Author : Lita Judge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02-15
When You Need Wings written by Lita Judge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with categories.
Water Wings
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Author : Morris Gleitzman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2004-04-05
Water Wings written by Morris Gleitzman and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'What I need,' said Pearl, as she started to slide off the roof, 'is a grandmother.' But where do you get a top gran at short notice? It's not easy. Luckily Pearl's got Winston to help her, and you can do anything when your best friend is the world's brainiest guinea pig.Then Pearl meets Gran and the surprises begin. A funny and moving story about letting go (and not drowning).
Wishing For Wings
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Author : Debbie Jacob
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Wishing For Wings written by Debbie Jacob and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
They were outcasts, the forgotten boys of Trinidad and Tobago imprisoned for violent crimes including armed robbery and murder. They had nothing left but a wish for a better life, the feeling that they would need an education to achieve their goals, and a desperate desire to find an English teacher. In 2010 Debbie Jacob entered the gates of the Youth Training Centre (YTC), the remand centre for boys in the Caribbean island of Trinidad - it would be a move that would change her life and the lives of her young charges forever. Based on a true story, Wishing for Wings recounts Debbie's challenging journey of preparing seven young men for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) English Language exam. Heartbreaking but also encouraging, Debbie's story and those of her students, offer an unprecedented look into the lives of troubled teens and boys in prison. The realities of the education and justice systems are brought into sharp focus as are issues such as teaching (formal) English in a Creole speaking environment. It is a story of challenge and triumph; of rebellion and redemption; of loss and of learning, but most of all it is about the Power of Love. Debbie Jacob took a chance with her students, and they took a chance with her. In the end, both teacher and students would discover just how much they had come to need each other. Impossible to put down, Wishing for Wings captures both the fear and the pleasure of one teacher in unchartered territory; and the hope and trust sustaining her students. The story of their journey together will make you cry and make you smile, but most of all, it will remind you of the enduring power of faith and love.